Man Ray

« I was greatly saddened to hear that Sven Nykvist died. He was a brilliant photographer and a wonderful man. My whole young adulthood was full of dazzling cinematic images that he was responsible for. It was an honor to have worked with him and a treat to have spent time in his company. »

For the purposes of HBO’s teen series “Euphoria”, Hungarian cinematographer Marcell Rév (Jupiter’s Moon, White God) went down a visual path that mixes the realism of dramatic situations with a sometimes-baroque stylization of the lighting. The result on the screen is the recreation of an entire universe, that of young people in 2019, whose thirst for life, whose free and sometimes destructive passions, are not so dissimilar to a famous Californian portrait painted by director Nicholas Ray in 1955… (FR)

In late January 2015, cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, AFC, was asked to take over the color grading process of Bertrand Tavernier’s L’Horloger de Saint-Paul at Laboratoires Éclair, in advance of the release of a Blu-Ray DVD version two months later. He’d sent his friend, the director, a letter, in which he shared his emotion at watching the film again and remembering the experience of shooting beside him. Here’s an excerpt…

L’ombre dans les arts visuels, un thème que deux institutions madrilènes explorent chez les maîtres anciens au musée Thyssen-Bornemisza, et chez les artistes contemporains à la Caja Madrid jusqu’au 17 mai.
Le volet multimédia de l’exposition couvre également la photographie ainsi que le cinéma.

Du 17 octobre 2023 au 21 janvier 2024, la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) présente une exposition qui rassemble des chefs-d’œuvre en noir et blanc issus de ses collections photographiques. L’exposition met l’accent sur les photographes qui ont concentré et systématisé leur création artistique en noir et blanc tels que Nadar, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Willy Ronis, Helmut Newton, Diane Arbus, Mario Giacomelli, Robert Frank, William Klein, Daido Moriyama ou Valérie Belin…